Hi,

try arpwatch... this will log machines, on the same subnet, that change IP add....

Chino

--- bodgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2004 16:35:29 +0800, william villanueva
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Will check into that.  Does this use the same calls as  "arp -a"?  I was
> testing this but not all the connection showed up.  One came up as
> "incomplete".

This is based on my experience (I am not aware of the standards for ARP.)

An "incomplete" entry would mean that the last attempt to contact the
given IP was unsuccessful, i.e. there was no response to the ARP
who-has request. This means that the machine was temporarily
unreachable on the network. You can try it out by pinging a
non-existing IP on your subnet. An "unavailable" entry would appear
for a while, but will disappear soon.

Also, IP addresses with no traffic get removed from the arp table
after some time (does anybody know how long? is there a standard on
this?). It doesn't mean that the host isn't there anymore though. One
ping or any traffic will make it reappear in the arp table.
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